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From: Joe on 14 May 2010 06:16 Any recommendations for a Firewire enclosure and hard drive to put in it? I have a Quicksilver 867 MHz with two internal parallel ATA hard drives, 60MB and 40MB, so I figured I would upgrade the hard drive using a Firewire enclosure. My computer has the original Firewire it came with, so it must be the 400MHz type. Things I would like to know, besides recommendations for drive and enclosure, are 1. Will every Firewire enclosure be compatible with the Firewire in the Quicksilver? 2. Will every Firewire enclosure be bootable wth OS X AND OS 9? Thanks. --- Joe
From: Jolly Roger on 14 May 2010 09:31 In article <none-1405100316500001(a)dialup-4.231.168.161.dial1.losangeles1.level3.net >, none(a)given.now (Joe) wrote: > Any recommendations for a Firewire enclosure and hard drive to put in it? > > I have a Quicksilver 867 MHz with two internal parallel ATA hard drives, > 60MB and 40MB, so I figured I would upgrade the hard drive using a > Firewire enclosure. My computer has the original Firewire it came with, > so it must be the 400MHz type. > > Things I would like to know, besides recommendations for drive and > enclosure, are > > 1. Will every Firewire enclosure be compatible with the Firewire in the > Quicksilver? > > 2. Will every Firewire enclosure be bootable wth OS X AND OS 9? > > Thanks. > > --- Joe I have had good experiences with OWC Mercury hard drive enclosures: <http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/firewire> -- Send responses to the relevant news group rather than email to me. E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my very hungry SPAM filter. Due to Google's refusal to prevent spammers from posting messages through their servers, I often ignore posts from Google Groups. Use a real news client if you want me to see your posts. JR
From: George Kerby on 14 May 2010 10:52 On 5/14/10 8:31 AM, in article jollyroger-D780CB.08311514052010(a)news.individual.net, "Jolly Roger" <jollyroger(a)pobox.com> wrote: > In article > <none-1405100316500001(a)dialup-4.231.168.161.dial1.losangeles1.level3.net >> , > none(a)given.now (Joe) wrote: > >> Any recommendations for a Firewire enclosure and hard drive to put in it? >> >> I have a Quicksilver 867 MHz with two internal parallel ATA hard drives, >> 60MB and 40MB, so I figured I would upgrade the hard drive using a >> Firewire enclosure. My computer has the original Firewire it came with, >> so it must be the 400MHz type. >> >> Things I would like to know, besides recommendations for drive and >> enclosure, are >> >> 1. Will every Firewire enclosure be compatible with the Firewire in the >> Quicksilver? >> >> 2. Will every Firewire enclosure be bootable wth OS X AND OS 9? >> >> Thanks. >> >> --- Joe > > I have had good experiences with OWC Mercury hard drive enclosures: > > <http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/firewire> Dittos.
From: nospam on 14 May 2010 13:27 In article <none-1405100316500001(a)dialup-4.231.168.161.dial1.losangeles1.level3.net> , Joe <none(a)given.now> wrote: > 1. Will every Firewire enclosure be compatible with the Firewire in the > Quicksilver? all of them, just be sure it has a firewire 400 plug. otherwise you will need an adapter if it's only firewire 800 (they're cheap). some have both fw400 and fw800 and you might want to consider a combination firewire/usb for the flexibility. > 2. Will every Firewire enclosure be bootable wth OS X AND OS 9? almost all. there are a couple of firewire bridges that are not bootable but that's rare.
From: John McWilliams on 14 May 2010 14:08
VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote: > In article <vilain-9937CB.04495914052010(a)news.individual.net>, Michael Vilain <vilain(a)NOspamcop.net> writes: >> I made the mistake of buying a FW400 Seagate/Maxtor drive from a local >> Fry's. It died about 14 days afterwards and Fry's wouldn't exchange it. >> So I sent it back to the factory. 2 months later, I got it back. It's >> a back drive now. >> >> In the interim, I got a LaCie 1TB FW drive (FW400, FW800, USB). Works >> just fine on my FW800 controller on MacOS 10.4 and 10.5. >> >> Won't boot via FW800 on MacOS 9. Didn't try OS9. That will be a big >> problem since MacOS 9 is so old. You may end up living without OS 9 >> compatibility and FW. Your call. >> >> Honestly, something so old is going to be hard to get stuff that works >> and EXPENSIVE to get working. Also your call on if you want to pour a >> lot of money into a machine you're lucky a recycling center would accept >> if you paid them $0.50 to take it. On eBay, it would be salable for >> parts or as a doorstop. > > LaCie drives are OK but their wallwart power supplies are suspect. I've > had to replace 3 on one 1TB drive. I finally decided no more LaCie. I > used the drive removed from the LaCie enclosure to increase the capacity > of the internal drive in my wife's iMac 24". These power supplies seem > to fail whenever there was a write in progress too. I've had to recover > 1T of scrozzled data all too often. All of my Mac externals are now a > RAID-1 configuration. My reaction is similar to Michael's: Why spend any money on a machine so old? Is the FW drive just for backups? -- John McWilliams |